Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Francis Marion is better remembered today than he used to be. There
was a time, however, when, outside of his native South Carolina, hardly
anyone without a good knowledge of the Southern theatre of the American
Revolution would have heard of him. And there just weren’t that many
Americans with that particular knowledge. In whatever education they may
have received about the Revolution, the South’s important role in that
epic struggle was either unknown by those doing the teaching, glossed
over, or ignored. The result was that the extraordinary efforts of men
like Marion, Thomas Sumter, Elijah Clarke and so many others in the
fight for American independence in South went largely unheralded while
those in more northerly regions received sustained and sometimes fawning
attention from historians, popularizers, documentary film makers, etc.
For example, in the preface to his book The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas,
published in1997, New York author John Buchanan claims that, “On
learning of my subject, a friend of mine, well educated, well read,
intellectually curious, looked surprised and admitted, ‘I really don’t
know what happened south of Philadelphia.’”

We shouldn’t perhaps think too badly of John Buchanan’s friend. The
Revolution in the South was bloody and complex and in many respects the
sources historians need to do the work of telling its story are pretty
thin in places, and obscure in others. It’s not a story quickly or
easily told, not least of all because it’s such a compelling one. A peek
through the door requires you to go on inside, have a seat, and linger
for a while.

American conservatives should not only applaud the move, they should be doing everything possible to help them find the door.

Image a world without Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Diane Feinstein,
or Kamala Harris; where Democrats would not start the presidential
election cycle with nearly one quarter of the Electoral College votes
needed to win the election; where the United States Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit would disappear; where every radical Leftist group
could set up shop and get out of real America; where every illegal
immigrant could find a home in the sanctuary State.

And that is only the beginning.

Real America could finally get its culture back without the perversions of Hollywood.

Torres comes from humble beginnings. Growing up in
New Orleans, the self-made entrepreneur struggled in school while
dealing with dyslexia. Finally, in 1999, his grandmother agreed to
cosign a loan for $50,000 so he could finance the first home he would
flip.

"Not everybody has a grandmother that will cosign a
loan for them, but there are mentors out there like myself that lend
money to those who are serious," Torres said.

"The American Dream is not dead. I think it all
depends on how our culture shows...that you can do it. It's a matter of
wanting to do it," he added.

Treason – NOUN: The crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.

Polygraphing is a routine procedure in the intelligence community.
Some of this classified information, that is now public, was known only
by a very few. The Department of Justice should polygraph them and bring
them before a grand jury. This is treason and someone needs to go to
jail.

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When candidate Donald Trump warned his followers that there would be
efforts to “rig” the election he was universally ridiculed and scorned.
The media arm of the Democrat Party insisted that there was no evidence
of voter fraud over the last many elections. President Obama lectured
that the thousands of voting locations and election observers made the
claim just plain wrong.

In the final presidential debate Trump was asked if he was prepared
to accept the results of the vote count on November 8. Trump said he
would wait and see, which horrified Mrs. Clinton. She spent the next 19
days insisting that Trump was willing to destroy democracy.

The disclosure last August that the Russians hacked the Democrat
National Committee merely exposed the fact that the Democrat primary was
rigged for Hillary and cost Debbie Wasserman-Schultz her job as chair
of the DNC. Who cares?

Author Donald Davidson wrote of the decline of Northern cities committed to progress and the past resistance of Southern cities like Charleston and Savannah to the relentless march of industrial capitalism. But, he observed the ruins all around us as “the ruins of societies no less than the ruins of cities. Over the ruins stream mobs led by creatures no longer really human – creatures who, whether they make shift to pass as educators, planners, editors, commissars, or presidents . . .” lead the way on the path to destruction.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

The Good Life in the South

“Continuity of family, of family life, and family position – irrespective of economic status – was in fact a great distinction of Charleston among old American cities; for elsewhere that continuity had been generally broken by one cause or another. With this continuity Charleston had a stability that expressed itself in the pattern of its streets and the conservatism of its architecture. The map of Charleston in 1948 was not substantially different from the map of Charleston two centuries before.

If John Stuart, whom George III in 1763 appointed superintendent of Indian affairs in the South, could have returned in 1948 to seek his home, he would have found it at 106 Tradd Street, just where he built it in 1772 – for a brief occupancy, as it happened, since the Revolution ejected him, as a Tory, rather speedily from his new house.

The secret of Charleston’s stability, if it was any secret, was only the old Southern principle that material considerations, however important, are means not ends, and should always be subdued to the ends they are supposed to serve, should never be allowed to dominate, never be mistaken for ends in themselves.

If they are mistaken for ends, they dominate everything, and then you get instability. You get the average modern city, you get New York and Detroit, you get industrial civilization, world wars, Marxist communism, the New Deal.

Historians, noting that the antebellum South was in a sense materialistic, in that it found ways of prospering from the sale of cotton and tobacco, and relied heavily upon slave labor, have had the problem of explaining why that same South developed a chivalrous, courteous, religious, conservative and stable society quite different from that which obtained in the also materialistic, but more industrialized, rational, idealistic, progressive North.

The planters’ “aristocratic” leadership was the result, not the cause, of a general diffusion of standards of judgment that all the South, even the Negro slaves, accepted a basic principle of life. Mr. Francis Butler Simkins, in his book The South Old and New, has taken securer than the average historian when he notes that the South at the outbreak of the Civil War was almost the only true religious society left in the Western world.

That old, religious South set the good life above any material means to life and consistently preferred the kind of material concerns that would least interfere with and best contribute to the good life. Its preferred occupations were agriculture, law, the church and politics – pursuits which develop the whole man rather than the specialist, the free-willed individual rather than the anonymous unit of the organized mass.

[With] reference to material means of existence, such as money, one could clinch the discourse by pointing out the traditional attitude of the Southern Negro toward work and wages. If you paid the Negro twice the normal wage for a day’s work, you did not get more work from him – that is to say, more devotion to work within a given period, with increased production as the result. Not at all.

The Negro simply and ingeniously worked only half as many days or hours as before – and spent the rest of the time in following his conception of the good life: in hunting, dancing, singing, social conversation, eating, religion, and love. This well-known habit of the Negro’s, disconcerting to employers and statisticians, was absolutely correct according to Southern principles.

The Negro, so far as he had not been corrupted into heresy by modern education, was the most traditional of Southerners, the mirror which faithfully and lovingly reflected the traits that Southerners once all but unanimously professed.

That had been the idea in Charleston too. It was what Mr. Simkins in his book, perhaps being misled by his historical predecessors, had called the “country gentleman” idea. But Charleston, which had always been urban, always a town or a city of counting-houses, warehouses, factors, bankers, financial agents, and the like, was not a city of country gentlemen, exactly.

It had agreed with the country gentleman and with others of every sort, including the Negro, on letting the relationship between work, wages and life be determined by the metaphysical judgment indicated above. That was what made Charleston Charleston and not “The Indigo City” or something of the kind.”

(Still Rebels, Still Yankees, and Other Essays, “Some Day in Old Charleston,” Donald Davidson, LSU Press, 1957, excerpt, pp. 221-224)

The Department of Justice is reversing the federal
government’s position in an important voting rights case, involving a
Texas voter ID law. The switch was not unexpected following the election
of Donald Trump and confirmation of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
Both Trump and Sessions claim voter fraud is a major problem and have
backed voter ID laws.

In a motion filed Monday, DOJ asked a federal court to dismiss the
department’s earlier claim that the ID law was enacted with the
intention of discriminating against minority voters. That claim was made
by the Obama administration as part of a broader legal challenge to the
law, which is among the strictest in the nation.

But the Trump administration notes that the Texas legislature is now
considering changing the law to address concerns that it hurts
minorities. DOJ says those efforts should be allowed to proceed.

The head of the NYPD sergeants union blasted Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill for their refusal to cooperate with the Trump administration’s deportation policies.

“It’s almost like the world is upside-down right now,” Ed Mullins,
president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said Sunday on John
Catsimatidis' "The Cat's Roundtable" AM 970 radio show. “The people who
are committing crimes, they don’t belong in the country.”

“We still don’t have any evidence of them talking to Russians,” Mr. Nunes said as he briefed reporters. “As of right now, the initial inquiries I’ve made to the appropriate agencies, I don’t have any evidence.”

Islamic
militants in the Philippines have beheaded a 70-year-old German hostage
they were holding for ransom, Manila officials said Monday, as Berlin
condemned the murder as "unscrupulous and inhumane".

The
Abu Sayyaf group, blamed for the worst terror attacks in Philippine
history, had demanded a ransom of 30 million pesos ($600,000) be paid by
Sunday to spare Jurgen Kantner.

After
the expiration of the deadline the jihadists, which were monitored by
intelligence group SITE, posted a gruesome video showing Kantner being
killed by a knife-wielding man.

Shortly
after the clip appeared Philippines government envoy Jesus Dureza
confirmed the death of Kantner, who was abducted from his yacht off the
southern Philippines last year.

“I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president undermine a current president,” Mr. Bush
explained to Fox News’s Sean Hannity in 2014, on why he refused to
critique his successor’s policies. “I think it’s bad for the presidency,
for that matter.”

Yet one month into President Donald Trump’s presidency, Mr. Bush decided it was OK to offer a critique of the former real estate mogul.

Mr. Bush,
speaking with Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” Monday, insisted “we all need
answers” regarding possible connections between Russian officials and Mr. Trump’s campaign team. He (thankfully) dodged the question on whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to investigate the matter.

With the polls narrowing and one of her main rivals embroiled
in an expenses scandal, far-right leader Marine Le Pen could feasibly
become French president in May, senior politicians and commentators say.

At
the headquarters of her National Front (FN) party in Nanterre outside
Paris, officials believe the same forces that led to the Brexit vote in
Britain and Donald Trump's victory in the United States could carry Le
Pen to power.

Even some of her rivals concede a victory for the far-right firebrand is possible.

In the tiny Arizona city of Douglas, a Border Patrol surveillance camera
is trained on a 10-foot-high fence with Mexico. After a few seconds,
footage shows a figure appearing out of nowhere and the fence suddenly
opens to allow a pickup truck through. A car follows, and they speed off
into adjoining neighborhoods while the makeshift gate slams shut.

And while President Trump is vowing to step up
enforcement and seal off the southern border, agents in Border Patrol
say they are still grappling with fallout from the Obama years – which
they contend allowed security problems like this to fester.

“We weren’t allowed to do our job,” Brandon Judd,
president of the National Border Patrol Council, the border agents’
union, told Fox News.

Trump
administration officials believe that a Department of Homeland Security
report that undercut the president’s position on his travel ban was
drafted with the express intent of leaking it to the press, a source
close to the department says.

The source said the report was drafted by those loyal to the Obama administration
inside the department’s office of intelligence and analysis. The
drafters relied solely on open source material, which meant it could be
delivered to reporters without violating federal laws on mishandling
classified information.

“This was not really a leak but sabotage,”
the source said. “This report was commentary. This is insurrection.
They all took an oath.”

President Donald Trump will ask Congress to cut the Environmental
Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget 24 percent, or nearly $2 billion,
according to sources familiar with the budget plans.

The White House sent draft budget plans to agency heads Monday,
detailing billions of dollars in cuts to a wide range of federal
programs. Cuts to EPA and other agencies will fund a $54 billion
increase in defense spending.

A source informed of the budget plans told E&E News Trump will push for a nearly $2 billion cut to EPA’s $8.1 billion budget. A source told Politico Trump also “proposed reducing EPA’s 15,000-strong workforce to 12,000, a level not seen since the mid-1980s.”

Monday, February 27, 2017

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton on Friday
urged President Donald Trump to upend four decades of precedent by
renegotiating the "One China" policy that denies Taiwan's sovereignty.

Bolton told the Washington Free Beacon in an exclusive
interview that the One China policy, which was established during
President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972, is "ahistorical" and
fails to reflect the current reality in East Asia, where natives of
Taiwan overwhelmingly identify as "Taiwanese" rather than "Chinese."

"The One China policy is inherently ambiguous," Bolton said. "China thinks it means one thing, we think it means another."

There is some serious chaos brewing abroad–and only America can stop it.

That's what former Danish prime minister and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen argues in PragerU's latest video,
pointing out, "Only America has the diplomatic reach, the financial
resources, and the firepower to lead the free world against the
autocrats, rogue states and terrorists that are trying to overwhelm it."

Rasmussen noted that prior to America's as status as a superpower,
there were two world wars that destroyed the lives of millions of
people. But since World War II, when America was cemented as the world's
greatest superpower, there has been "relative peace."

This essay was published in Why the South Will Survive: Fifteen Southerners Look at Their Region a Half Century after I’ll Take My Stand, edited by Clyde Wilson, 1981.

When the Southern Agrarians took their stand, they did it stoutly, on
two feet. Some emphasized the “Southern,” others the “Agrarian,” but
fifty years ago it seemed that the two loyalties, to the South and to
rural life, could (indeed, pretty well had to) go together.

Today that juxtaposition is less self-evidently sensible. If ever
a society can be said to have repudiated agrarianism, the South, to all
appearances, has done so. Two-thirds of all Southerners now are “urban”
by Census Bureau standards; of the rural one-third, only a fraction are
employed in agriculture; and of those a good many are proprietors or
hands in “agribusiness”—an expression that some of the Agrarians
blessedly did not live to encounter.

A few years ago, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who then was Russia’s ambassador to NATO, warned
that a new influence had appeared that was becoming a major threat to
large segments of the world, namely, Asia, Europe and America.

“There is a new civilization emerging in the Third World that thinks
that the white, Northern Hemisphere has always oppressed it and must
therefore fall at its feet now. … If the northern civilization wants to
protect itself, it must be united: America, the European Union and
Russia. If they are not together, they will be defeated one by one,” he
said.

He was primarily referring to radical Islam. And America, with its
Christian foundation, Europe, with its own Judeo-Christian heritage, and
even Russia, with its historic Russian Orthodox Christian church, would
appear to have reason to join ranks.

So why would the American political elite be so averse to pursuing
better relations with Russia, as President Donald Trump has suggested?

MARINE Le Pen
branded the European Union (EU) a “totalitarian institution” and pledged
to free a “weakened” France from the crippling burden of EU
bureaucracy.

The
Front National leader has laid out her foreign policy vision for France
with plans to reverse EU bureaucracy which has left France “enfeebled”
and “cut off” form the world.
Speaking in Paris yesterday, she
said: “It’s time for us to put an end to this bureaucratic monster that
is the European Union. European countries are bound together in many
ways, and this mandatory coalition is destroying individual member
states.”

The far-right chief also vowed not to allow her country be “diminished, isolated, and wholly dependent on the EU”.

On Friday the New York Times published a piece titled Trump’s Blistering Speech at CPAC Follows Bannon’s Blueprint. In
the article the New York Times intentionally tried to mislead readers
and cause chaos and panic by lying about what President Trump said
during his CPAC speech.

The Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas has announced that Barbara
Pierce Bush is going to be the keynote speaker for the 2017 Annual
Luncheon according to Planned Parenthood’s website.

Former President George W. Bush’s daughter, Barbara Pierce Bush,
is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps. In the Mission &
Vision section of the GHC website it states that “We believe that every person has the right to live a healthy, dignified life.”

The President of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, and Barbara Pierce Bush have a mutual connection – Hillary Clinton.

This nation is at a crossroads. There are many indications that there is
a significant push by Marxists to step out of the shadows and claim
title to our institutions, pushing the idea of capitalism out of the
public square the same way they pushed God out of the schools. Swirling
in the air of social media is the idea that to resist capitalism is to
resist all of the ills of society, as if capitalism caused them.
Unfortunately, this shows a determined lack of intelligence, reinforced
by Marxist professors.

Here's what I know: no one is telling the story, no one is standing up
for the America we should have. Republicans use the Constitution to get
elected to continue the Ponzi scheme of government programs. Democrats
want to replace the electorate in order to get the election results they
want to in turn continue the Ponzi scheme of government programs. None
of them will ever have a reason to look backward at individual freedom
as anything other than a threat to their power.

We elected Donald Trump, because he was neither of them and we all knew that.

In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer
that the “false political doctrine that any and every people have a
right to self-government” was the cause of the war that had been raging
in America since 1861. The general was forgetting, or ignoring, that
this very “doctrine” had led the American colonists to declare their
independence from Great Britain in the previous century.

In the same
letter, Sherman referred to state’s rights, freedom of conscience, and
freedom of the press as “nonsense” and “trash.”

Devoted to the union and a powerful central government, he was
willing to wage total war against fellow Americans who were fighting for
independence and self-determination, and in the winter of 1865, many of
the men who followed General Sherman cooperated with him in his
intention to “smash South Carolina all to pieces” with malevolent glee.
One South Carolina gentleman, a resident of Fairfield District, when
asked if he had been visited by “rough men” (meaning Sherman’s
soldiers), answered that he had been visited by “a legion of devils, not
by men.”

After the city of Columbia, South Carolina, was sacked and burned by
Sherman’s troops on February 17, 1865, one of its citizens, J. J.
McCarter, recorded the following observation in his journal:

But please, CNN – tell us more about how honest and impartial you
are. Sheesh, even the legal system isn’t buying your crap anymore.

According to this,
the former CEO of St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Davide
Carbone, sued CNN after they reported a story that made the hospital
look bad. Carbone’s case claimed that CNN manipulated certain statistics
to make it look like the hospital had an infant mortality rate “three
times the national average” –

“In our case, we contended that CNN essentially made up
its own standard in order to conduct an ‘apples to oranges’ comparison
to support its false assertion that St. Mary’s mortality rate was 3
times higher than the national average. Accordingly, the case against
CNN certainly fits the description of media-created ‘Fake News.’” said
Carbone’s attorney L. Lin Wood, in a statement to LawNewz.com.

Wood says that as a result of CNN’s story Carbone lost his job and it
became extremely difficult for him to find new employment in the field
of hospital administration.
“False and defamatory accusations against real people have serious
consequences. Neither St. Mary’s or Mr. Carbone did anything to deserve
being the objects of the heinous accusation that they harmed or put
babies and young children at risk for profit,” Wood said.

Sunday, February 26, 2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday her country needs to
meet its NATO obligation to spend 2 percent of gross domestic product on
defense.

The Trump administration is actively pushing NATO allies to increase
their spending. Germany currently spends about 1.2 percent of GDP on
defense, which Merkel vows to change if she is elected for a fourth term
in office this September.

“Obligations have to be fulfilled,” Merkel said
at a campaign rally Saturday. “And, others in the world will demand
that of us. And, I think they’re right that Germany must uphold its
obligations.”

That this country is divided and engaged in a cultural war is a fact
that cannot be disputed. On the one side you have the Leftists,
Satanists, most Democrats, RINO’s and the Transgender crowd who all
realize this and they know what this war is all about–the destruction of
Christian culture and influence. On the other side you have patriotic
and conservative folks, many of them Christians, and, unfortunately,
many of them don’t have a clue as to what this war is really all about,
or that there even is a war. They seem to think that most of this is,
somehow, a political issue and most of them have been taught that
politics is “of the world” and so they shouldn’t get involved. That’s
rotten theology, but it has been effective theology for the past 150
years, so why should the Leftists and their ilk change horses in
midstream when this horse has been doing so well?

President Trump
on Friday signed another executive order aimed at reducing federal
regulations, this time directing all government agencies to form a
“regulatory reform task force” that will identify unneeded red tape and
remove it.

In brief comments in the Oval Office, the president
said each task force will report back to the White House “every once in a
while” with their findings.

“Each task force will make recommendations to repeal or simplify existing regulations,” Mr. Trump
said while surrounded by top U.S. business leaders. “The regulatory
burden is, for the people behind me and for the great companies of this
country, and for the small companies, an impossible situation.

A government ethics expert wants the federal government to
investigate former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s $138,000-a-year payout from a
combination of worker's compensation and Social Security disability
benefits.

The Chicago Tribune reported
Jackson receives $100,000 per year in worker's compensation benefits
because he has bipolar disorder and depression and another $38,400 per
year in disability benefits.

Craig Holman, from the watchdog group
Public Citizen, called that amount of money "breathtaking" for a former
congressman.

"I can't imagine in any way that his bipolar disorder would have
been caused in any way by his congressional duties," Holman said. "It's
really troubling to see someone who goes to prison for corruption
coming out of prison (and collecting that money)."

The anti-Trump "sanctuary restaurant" movement to shield illegal
immigrants has reached parity with the "sanctuary city" effort in many
major cities, according to leaders of the effort.

Led by a legal group for restaurant workers and a "Latinx"
advocacy organization, over 300 restaurants have joined the sanctuary
effort, equal to the over 300 sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate
with federal officials seeking to detain criminal illegals, the
deportation target of both former President Obama and President Trump.

A black waitress who received thousands of dollars in donations after
she claimed she received a racist note and no tip from a patron last
month fabricated the incident, the customer claims.

Kelly Carter, a waitress at Anita’s New Mexico Cafe in Ashburn, Va.,
claimed that a white man stiffed her on his $30.52 restaurant bill and
wrote “Great service, don’t tip black people” at the bottom of his
receipt.

But the note was forged, says Daniel Hebda, a lawyer for the customer.

Hebda said in a statement Friday that his client did leave Carter a
small tip — one penny — because her service was poor, not because she is
black.

Abby Ross never spent time around guns until a little more than a decade
ago. "I grew up on Staten Island," she said. "Hunting or gun use was
not part of our family traditions."

Now she handles guns with ease for hunting, sport and training.
And she's one of a growing number of women venturing into the world of
guns, either as part of the outdoor experience or for self-defense.

Women increasingly have become a profitable new target customer for gun-shop owners and firearms manufacturers.

"Women should not be afraid to know how to handle a weapon when
they use them," said Ross, whose husband, an Army Special Forces
soldier, taught her when they met 14 years ago.

It is a classic matchup that places the Democratic Party's unwavering commitment to diversity on full display: The two front-runners
in this week's election for DNC chairman are a race-obsessed black hate
monger and a race-obsessed Hispanic hate monger. The former is
Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota. The latter is Thomas Perez, who
served as Assistant Attorney General in the Obama Justice Department's
Civil Rights Division, and subsequently as Obama's Secretary of Labor. A
clash of titans, if there ever was one.

Back in 2008, two men from the the New Black Panther party showed up
to a polling place in Philadelphia brandishing weapons to intimidate
voters. The two men became confrontational when approached by a video
tracker who asked them what they were doing with weapons in front of a
polling place.

The Department of Justice had a straightforward case against the two,
according to former attorney J. Christian Adams, until Perez, then head
of the agency’s Civil Rights Division, intervened. Adams resigned in protest after the charges were dropped. He called Perez the “most extreme cabinet nominee” he had ever seen.

The Department of Justice whistleblower who resigned over
the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case said President
Barack Obama’s labor secretary nominee Thomas Perez is the “most extreme
cabinet nominee in 70 years.”

J. Christian Adams, who worked for Perez at the Department of
Justice’s Civil Rights Division, sent a stern warning to the U.S. Senate
about Perez’s policies.

“Different business groups who don’t think the nominee matters should
pay close attention to Perez’s record,” Adams said in an interview with
the Washington Free Beacon. “People like Perez are very skillful at creatively ignoring the law to suit their own ends.”

President Trump’s promise to build a “great wall” on the border
between the United States and Mexico is happening – whether liberals
like it or not.

The Department of Homeland Security is kicking off bid solicitations, according to FedBizOpps.gov:

The Dept. of Homeland Security, Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) intends on issuing a solicitation in electronic format
on or about March 6, 2017 for the design and build of several prototype
wall structures in the vicinity of the United States border with Mexico.
The procurement will be conducted in two phases, the first requiring
vendors to submit a concept paper of their prototype(s) by March 10,
2017, which will result in the evaluation and down select of offerors by
March 20, 2017. The second phase will require the down select of phase
1 offerors to submit proposals in response to the full RFP by March 24,
2017, which will include price. Multiple awards are contemplated by
mid-April for this effort. An option for additional miles may be
included in each contract award.

Indivisible
is a group of progressive activists who are showing up at Republican
town halls across the country with the purpose of wreaking havoc.

Rep.
Dave Brat ran into the team at several of his town-halls – of which CNN
described as “raucous” and the Washington Post dubbed as “fiery” – all
without noting the coordinated efforts by Indivisible team to do and be just that.

The Richmond Times Dispatch was more honest in its
reporting, and noted many of the angry constituents showing up at these
town halls throughout the state of Virginia to protest members were
from Indivisible Richmond – Indivisible’s local team – and Together We Will.

The
Dispatch reported in an article entitled “The women who are up in in
Dave Brat’s Grill”: “After the election, a group of former Democratic
staffers put together the Indivisible guide for how to approach lawmakers, which openly describes successful strategies used by the tea party movement.

A majority of online and social media defenders of Obamacare are
professionals who are "paid to post," according to a digital expert.

"Sixty percent of all the posts were made from 100 profiles,
posting between the hours of 9 and 5 Pacific Time," said Michael Brown.
"They were paid to post."

His shocking analysis was revealed on this weekend's Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,
broadcast on Sinclair stations and streamed live Sunday at 9:30 a.m.
Her upcoming show focuses on information wars and Brown was describing
what happened when he had a problem with Obamacare and complained
online.

Brown said that social media is used to manipulate opinion, proven in the last presidential election.

Claiming people are being paid to riot, Republican
state senators voted Wednesday to give police new power to arrest anyone
who is involved in a peaceful demonstration that may turn bad — even
before anything actually happened.

SB1142 expands the state’s racketeering laws, now
aimed at organized crime, to also include rioting.

And it redefines what
constitutes rioting to include actions that result in damage to the
property of others.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.